Jason

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Does Jesus Exist?
did Jesus exist?

Are there grounds to question the historical existence of Jesus of Nazareth?

The Jesus who was and is
the Jesus
      who was and is

Have you thought through the implications of the historical existence of Jesus?

Did the Jesus of the Bible exist?
Did the Jesus of the Bible exist?

Was Jesus just a great teacher who was deified after his death?

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A look at presuppositionalism

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It's been a while since my last heavy post. This topic has been going through my head a lot over the last several weeks. Farid commented that “the big danger with taking faith over everything is that you'll believe really crazy things and you won't see the truth because blind faith is.... blinding!” For a classic (and somewhat disturbing) example, click here where you'll see a Fundamental, Independent Baptist scholar trying to prove that the

An introduction to evidentialism

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Recently I've been studying something called evidentialism. I have to admit that I'm learning this from the ground up, but I thought I'd put what I'm learning here in order to help me sort out my thoughts. Also, some of you may be able to give me feedback that would be helpful in the development of my thinking on this. I'll start by defining evidentialism. "Evidentialism is a theory of justified belief according to which

Epistemology and other irrelevant stuff

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We're tempted at times to think the size of a word is directly proportionate to its real-life irrelevance. The longer the word—we think—the less relevant to my life. And I guess at times that's true. But there are some words that are extremely relevant. For instance, Orthomyxoviridae doesn't seem very relevant unless you were up all night with the symptoms of the virus also known as the flu. Epistemology is like that. We may not

Change

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It’s inevitable. You can run from it. You can hide from it. You can pretend it won’t happen. But as sure as the rising of the sun, things change. There are three truths we must face head-on if we’re going to successfully understand and navigate change. 1) Change is scary. Fear is the instinctive human response to change. Change makes us feel out-of-control as we face a future that is unpredictable. I recently spoke to